Organizing Solutions in Victoria, BC

Month: March 2016

So often I hear from clients, “I know I could do this myself but I didn’t know where to start,” or “I’ve tried organizing our home so many times but it doesn’t seem to work.” Some people feel shame or embarrassment with “having” to hire a professional organizer and that definitely doesn’t need to be the case! Plenty of people hire professional house cleaners or personal trainers, tutors for your children or dog walkers for your pups, so why the need to shy away from hiring someone to help you create a more functional home? Nothing to be ashamed of about that! Hiring a professional organizer can be quite liberating . There is so much freedom in de-cluttering and becoming organized. What I love most about my job is working with families and seeing the huge changes that take place once we work together and create a beautiful space that they never thought possible.

So, below you will find 5 reasons why you might need to hire a professional organizer!

1.YOU NEED ACCOUNTABILITY

For the same reasons people will hire a personal trainer to help motivate and hold them accountable for reaching their fitness goals, you may need a organizer to help hold you accountable for your organizational goals. When your trying to organize yourself, it’s easy to talk yourself out of things like what items to hold onto or what items to purge. Its also easy to give up and go eat a bag of chips instead! What a professional organizer can do is encourage you along the way and keep you motivated to complete the task. When you’ve booked an organizer to come into your home, theres no excuses!

2. YOU NEED HELP MAKING DECISIONS

Organizing your home can be very overwhelming and you can easily get stuck in the process of de-cluttering because of the challenges your faced with when it comes to keeping or tossing household items. Professional organizers can coach you through every decision so that you are able to move forward and get through the challenges with a little more ease.

3. THE DAYS ARE TOO SHORT

There are only so many hours in the day, and with work, kids, school, groceries, cleaning, errands, and sports just to name a few who has time to sit down and organize a room? Hiring a professional organizer, can keep you focused on the task at hand and spending your time organizing more efficiently!

4. YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START

Oftentimes when a job seems too large we become paralyzed and put off starting for “another day.” An organizer can wok alongside you and break down that huge job into smaller more achieveable tasks.

5. YOU FIND IT HARD TO FINISH A PROJECT

As I mentioned, I hear this all the time. Usually when people have decided to hire me, it has come after multiple unsuccessful attempts to organize their home. You see these amazing homes and DIY organizing tips on Pinterest and think you can do it all in one quick go, but unfortunately it just doesn’t happen like that. Where a professional organizer can help is keep you focused and realistic about the process and motivated to achieve the look and functionality of the room until its complete.

These are just a few of the reasons you might find it necessary to hire an organizer. Personally, I love working alongside people in their homes. The messy, disorganized and chaotic homes are what I love to work with, so there is never any pretending or shaming. I am always so thankful when families welcome me into their homes, it’s a job i thoroughly enjoy and take pride in!

Testimonials

I desperately needed Rachel's help, and she delivered! She helped create a functional, organized kitchen where only chaos existed before. Even now, weeks later, it's still clean, because its now easy to clean up! Everything has a place, and it all looks great! Thank you so much!

Marlise, Victoria BC

"Working with Space in your Place was so amazing! She made it so easy to get rid of unused items and organized my daughters room in a way that makes it easy and fun for her to tidy up. I would highly recommend Space in your Place, and look forward to utilizing her organizational skills again!"

Roberta, Victoria BC

"This service is so awesome! My garage never looked so good and I felt so organized. Summer has literally gotten easier now that all I have to do is grab a box and toss it in my car for different activities and put it right back when I get home. Looking forward to the rest of my house!!! Can't say enough good things here"

Erin, Victoria BC

"I have nothing but great things to say about Rachel & Space in your place!
She helped me reorganize my master closet (which I had avoided dealing with for a while). Happy to say it is (still) a functional organized space!
It's honestly the best feeling to have that closet purged and organized, I wish now I did it sooner. Rachel made the overwhelming situation (that I had procrastinated for a while) effortless for me by checking in with me along the way to see how I was doing, gave some great tips and suggestions along the way too.

You will not be disappointed if you hire Rachel to help you with any room in your house"

Julie, Victoria BC

Rachel Freeman from Space in your Place Organizing came out to our home and it was amazing. It was like having a good friend sit down with you - separate things into keep, donate and trash, and talked with me about new ways to change up my systems that were failing (LAUNDRY!!). She was kind enough to take the stuff that I set aside for donation too. And thank goodness because otherwise those bags would've sat in my car's trunk for who knows how long.
I'm hoping to save money and set up a few visits for my own parents so they can get a handle on their garage and craft/laundry room (as a Christmas gift).
I highly recommend her - very professional, non-judgmental, friendly and great at what she does.